Sharing peer review information between hospitals is essential to help medical staffs determine practitioners' competence and make informed privilege granting decisions. However, medical staffs can find themselves facing legal challenges if the disclosure process is done inappropriately.
Last time, we saw Dr. Young experience double jeopardy following a patient complaint. Her employer wrote her up and threatened to terminate her if another incident occurred. The medical staff president gave her a slap on the wrist and said, "Try not to do it again." Dr. Young is rightfully...
A significant minority of standards account for a significant majority of adverse findings during any accreditation survey. The following is a list of common “hot button” issues for standards directly or substantively attributable to the medical staff:
When physicians get disruptive: Taking action to prevent reoccurrences
While it's certainly not considered one of the perks of the job, at some point during their careers physician leaders and MSPs will have to deal with a physician who exhibits disruptive behavior....
Finding a lack of resources and tools that provide direction on clinical documentation for physicians, Joseph Cristiano, MD, assistant professor of general internal medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, set out to educate himself about the...
While it's certainly not considered one of the perks of the job, at some point during their careers physician leaders and MSPs will have to deal with a physician who exhibits disruptive behavior. Disruptive behavior can come in a variety of forms, from yelling and inappropriate language to, in...
